Want to Play?
By Paula Yoo
Illustrated by Shirley Ng-Benitez
Hardcover: $14.95
Paperback: $9.95
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View the Teacher's GuideIt’s a warm, sunny day, and the gang heads to the neighborhood playground to play. What should they play? Henry wants to play basketball, and Padma wants to play Follow the Leader. Finally Pablo comes up with a great idea: to play pretend. It’s a game that everyone can do easily. They can pretend to be archaeologists, astronauts, and explorers. There’s no limit to what they imagine they can be!
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About the Creators
Paula Yoo - Author
PAULA YOO is an author and screenwriter whose children's books for Lee & Low include Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds, Shining Star, and several titles in the Confetti Kids series. Her titles have been recognized by the International Reading Association, the Texas Bluebonnet Award Masterlist, and Lee & Low's New Voices Award. She and her husband live in Los Angeles, California, where she works in television. You can visit her online at paulayoo.com.
Shirley Ng-Benitez
SHIRLEY NG-BENITEZ is a children's book illustrator who creates art using watercolor, gouache, pencil, and digital techniques. She also loves to make 3-D creatures from clay and fabric. She lives in the Bay Area of California with her husband, their two daughters, and their pup. Please visit her website at shirleyngbenitez.com and follow her on social media at @shirleysillos.
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ISBN
Hardcover: 9781620142509
Paperback: 9781620142592
Awards
Junior Library Guild Selection
Choices
Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
Guided Reading:
ILexile:
390LIntervention:
12Interest Level:
Grades K - 2Reading Level:
Grades 1 - 2Themes
Childhood Experiences and Memories, Cultural Diversity, Friendship, Games/Toys, Multiethnic interest, Realistic Fiction, Collaboration, Imagination, Neighbors
Part of These Collections
Emergent English, Diverse Background English Collection Grades PreK-2, Realistic Fiction Collection Grades PreK-2, Emergent Dual Language, Bebop English Guided Reading Level I, Confetti Kids Series Collection, At Home Learning Collection for Grades PreK-2 Summer Reading Collection PreK-2, Reading Recovery Bebop Books collection, Summer Reading Collection,
